v2.6 in a nutshell
- X-ray: see applied styles, margins, paddings, etc
- Overriding: style any online/dynamic web site
- Selector Builder: selectors made easy
- Tabs: the coolest tabs ever, now for you!
- Browser Integration: have tons of fun with your favorite sites
- …and MUCH more!
CSSEdit 2.6 (newest)
- Completely ready for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- CSSEdit can now open style sheets using an extension that's not ".css"
- Externally modified documents present an option to reload from disk
- Inserting styles is more context sensitive, especially when working in source code
- URLs can be dropped on the Dock icon to preview or extract
- Preview menu has new text size commands
- Fixed incorrect X-ray element matching
- Fixed various crashes and freezes
- Tons of other tweaks
CSSEdit 2.5.1+2.5.2
- (2.5.2) Fixes a bug in 2.5.1 where the Validation and Milestones inspectors would not show any content. Everyone who has updated to 2.5.1 should install this update.
- Added Safari to the User Agent string to improve behavior with browser-sniffing scripts
- Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging the editor mode picker from the toolbar
- Fixed a crash that could occur when editing a style name during filtering
- Improved crash reporter
CSSEdit 2.5
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Tabs!
- Both Style sheets and Previews now have Tabs
- Drag them around, re-order them, drag them off to new windows,… Ultimate flexibility!
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Selector Builder
- Lets you define selectors in a plain English interface
- Removes the learning curve for CSS selectors
- X-Ray
- Brand new X-ray Inspector that shows applied styles for the selected element, works without configuration for any site!
- Streamlined navigation bar to browse the DOM efficiently
- Various improvements and fixes to X-ray
- Visual Editing
- Text Shadow editor!
- Font Picker: easily choose your font from the installed list
- Various fixes and improvements
- Source Editing
- CodeSense now completes selectors as well as properties and values
- Corrected problems with Japanese, Chinese,… input
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Preview
- Brand new Navigation bar with loading indicator and back/forward
- Previewing now only detects changes in the HTML if it doesn't cause locking/writing issues. This resolves the issue where HTML editors like Dreamweaver and BBEdit are unable to save a previewed HTML file.
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LOTS of other fixes and improvements!
CSSEdit 2.0.2
- Validation has been updated to work with the new W3C validator
- Apply To works for HTML documents with any file extension
- Fixed rare crash with unrecognized @keywords
- Fixed an issue with unrecognized properties
CSSEdit 2.0.1
- Preview now handles all HTTPS pages, even with "insecure" certificates
- Completing colons and semi-colons now respects spacing preferences
- Improved color fidelity of generated hex RGB values
- Fixed a problem that didn't allow opening brackets in Spanish ISO keyboard layout
- Reworded "Allow more than one open section" in preferences
CSSEdit 2.0
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Previewing and Debugging
- Any site can be styled and previewed: blogs, dynamic Web Apps, Content Management Systems, anything — regardless of the backend technology (PHP, Ruby on Rails,…). Local HTML files of course work great as always
- Override functionality lets you edit online style sheets and preview changes in real time, without reloading or attacking your server
- X-ray shows margins, padding and positioning for selected elements
- Style Sheets button shows all used style sheets and lets you edit them
- Previewed HTML files automatically refresh when the file is saved
- Much friendlier Preview management list
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Validation
- Handy inspector window validates your CSS with the W3C
- Click on problems to go to the exact spot in your source code
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Milestones
- Save a copy of your style sheet while you're writing it and never lose work while debugging
- Revert to a previous Milestone easily, fully Undo aware
- Annotate saved Milestones to keep track of your progress
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Browser Integration
- Comes with a collection of bookmarklets (actions you can add to your browser's bookmarks bar) to tap into CSSEdit's functionality
- Extract, preview and edit any site's style sheets with one click in your browser (works with everything: Safari, Firefox, Camino,…)
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Extract From Site
- More accurate and reliable extraction of style sheets
- Improved and more focused interface
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Source Editing
- Source and Visual editors can now be open at the same time!
- Un/Comment to quickly disable/enable parts of your code
- CodeSense completion can now be explicitly requested by pressing escape or option-escape
- More powerful and customizable Re-Indent options
- Line numbers and marking of the current line (optional)
- Several improvements to indentation and spacing preservation
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Visual Editing
- Editor groups can be collapsed/expanded independently, allowing you to open more than one at the same time
- Units can now be selected by typing in their corresponding fields
- More intuitive editors for a range of properties
- Improved generation of shorthand property values
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Rewritten Core
- Speed! The new engine can handle huuuuuge style sheets
- Streamlined group syntax and improved handling of nested groups
- Robust Undo and Redo handling and increased stability
CSSEdit 1.7.1-1.7.2
- CSSEdit now works natively on Intel based Macs!
- Fixed a problem related to group parsing
- Improved reliability when dragging around styles
- Resolved an issue where comments wouldn't be visible
CSSEdit 1.7
- Live FTP Editing support (ODB Editor Suite)
- Brand new (re)formatting options
- Much improved Live Page Preview
- Style list speed improvements and bug fixes
- Better detection of outside changes
- Improved style sheet extraction
- Many small bug fixes and cleanups
CSSEdit 1.6.3a
- Fixed Undo issue on Jaguar
- Fixed non-updating Extended Preview on Jaguar
- Fixed inability to select "Smaller" in the font size popup
CSSEdit 1.6.3
- Revamped Extended Preview engine for better reliability
- Added Apple Help files
- Window size and position, editing mode and last used pane are remembered for each individual document and restored when opening it again
- Added export option that removes groups but keeps comments
- Border switcher buttons have 'dirty bullets' when there are filled in properties
- Fixed some issues with the Apply to HTML command
- Fixed incorrect relative paths when dropping an image
- Fixed problems displaying rgb() values
- Improved Revert to Saved behavior
- Improved manual typing of colors in the visual editors
- Registered copies no longer display the "Buy Now" menu item
- Several optimizations and cleanups
CSSEdit 1.6.2
- Removed erroneous April 1 expiration date
- Improved font shorthand handling
- Fixed improper updating when deleting an item
- Improved CSS extraction
- Fixed greyed-out Extended Preview popup
- Fixed invisible Preview icon in toolbar customization
CSSEdit 1.6.1
- Fixed crash on launch on Jaguar installs
- Editing mode is remembered and used when opening new documents
- Key commands for Extended Preview and Reload (command-option-P and command-R)
CSSEdit 1.6
- Source Editing
- Big optimizations in source editing
- Find and Replace
- Go to Line (Command-L)
- Improved auto-completion logic
- Command-arrows in source mode move cursor to begin/end of line (as they should)
- Visual Editing
- All value fields allow arrow up/down to increment/decrement their value (Shift-arrows makes jumps of 10)
- Font favorites menu uses the defined fonts on Panther
- Previewing
- Extended Preview refresh is much faster due to better caching
- Added a Reload button for the Extended Preview
- CSS Extraction
- Completely redone extraction engine for much better performance and responsiveness
- Cancel button in the Extraction sheet
- Option to make groups for different sources of CSS
- General
- Heavily improved encoding handling (any document should open now, no matter how messed up it is)
- Duplicate command (Command-D)
- Options to open last used documents on startup
- Huge Undo optimizations - much faster
- Outline selection gradient now uses the system selection color
- Preference to disable creating of shorthands by the visual editors
- Bug Fixes
- Much improved source-visual interaction, fixing various bugs
- Fixed hang that occurred when making font families
- Fixed crash when deleting everything between brackets
- Fixed bug in Panther where the auto-completion window stayed visible
- Fixed jumping scroll position in source mode with groups present
- Fixed bug causing writing values to the wrong property
- Deleting size/family from font shorthand now expands the rest
- Improved background shorthand handling
- Built in check to see if WebKit is present
- Fixed bugs where autocompletion wouldn't work (mainly if there was no space after a colon)
- When editing background position Y, X defaults to 0
- Fixed insertion of a space when pasting something after a dot of for example a class selector
- Fixed background image paths being converted to lowercase
- Fixed a bug where the font family from a shorthand would be wrong
- Fixed problem with quoted fonts in font shorthand
- Improved filtering reliability
- Many other fixes (if you reported a bug, it should be fixed!)
CSSEdit 1.5
- Source Editing
- Full blown source editor
- Customizable syntax coloring
- Intelligent auto-completion (keeps track of most used items)
- Auto-indentation
- Bracket selection
- Visual Editing
- Customizable, compact panes switcher
- Brand new border editor
- Fields send their value while typing, pressing return to confirm no longer needed
- Image fields insert the relative path to a dropped image file
- Major cleanup of the controls
- Previewing
- Extended Preview - see css changes in your web pages without saving!
- Instant Preview drawer for a quick idea about how the style looks
- Preview in Browser
- Styles list
- Filtering field to quickly find the style you're looking for
- Multi-level groups are now supported
- Big improvements to style preview in list
- Scrolling is silky smooth now
- Selecting styles in the list is up to 2 times as fast
- Preference to improve readablity of light text or dark backgrounds
- Much more robust CSS engine
- Loads of bug fixes, little additions and more all over the application
CSSEdit 1.0.1
- Solved crashes on Jaguar versions below 10.2.5
- Improved CSSEdit's handling of invalid css code, so it doesn't prevent a document from opening
- Added new properties vertical-align and display
- Much improved launch time
- Window size is saved
CSSEdit 1.0
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Demo restricts saving to files with less than 2500 characters.
Caution
May cause extremely attractive websites and bouts of validating code. Use with care.